I must confess it was happy day for me when I stumbled on the idea of putting lock-picking into a script as a key idea. It works as such a fine metaphor for the thaumatophile:

Lock-picking is a fine metaphor for penetration, not just in the sense that a pick fits into a lock, but in that it is a way of opening one’s way into unknown but desired spaces.

But it’s not just a crude penetration. Merely ramming a pick into a lock will never do. You must caress the lock, know, take your time learning its secrets, it, if you are to have any success in opening it.

Locks are a technology, and picking them a technological skill, so they fit well into the metaphor of mad science.

Entering forbidden spaces is not just a metaphor for sex, but the very aim of the scientist, the mad scientist in particular. So sex and knowledge and technology all bind into one here.

And of course, in a place like Gnosis College, where a bizarre but sexy secret might lurk behind any locked door, it’s a hell of a useful device for advancing plots!

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This site is the oldest of my various blogs. It is the home of the webcomics I write, the artwork I commission, images I curate, and miscellaneous writings. The generally material lies at the intersection of stuff I find erotic and the topos of mad science. The content is definitely for adults only and is sometimes squicky. I make no apologies for these facts. If you don't like what's here, there are plenty of other places for you on the web to be.

I have a number of other blogs, including Hedonix, where I curate images of a general kind that, some adult and some not but all of which give me pleasure, and Infernal Wonders, where I curate images thematically similar to some found on this site, but tonally a lot squickier. At a blog called Pyrosophy I write philosophy and cultivate my pessimistic and nihilistic nature. You can follow me on twitter at @EroticMadSci.

I reblog images here that other people have shared on the web, and try very hard to make sure that images are correctly sourced back to their creators. In doing so, I have a working understanding that people post these things because they want them brought to the attention of the wider world. I am bringing them to such attention. Nonetheless, if you are the rightful owner of an image posted here and want it removed, feel free to get in touch with me at "Contact me" above and I will remove it.